Conference Program

MAIN CONFERENCE SESSIONS

• Critical Transmission Range for Connectivity in Ad-Hoc Networks
  Hossein Ajorloo (Iran Telecommunication Research Center, Iran); Mahdi Dehghan (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran)
• ScatterFactory: An Architecture Centric Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks
  Mohammad Al Saad (Free University, Berlin, Germany); Jochen Schiller (FU Berlin, Germany); Benjamin Hentrich (FU Berlin, Germany)
• Performance of Multi-Hop Relaying Systems over Weibull Fading Channels
  Salama Ikki (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada); Mohamed Hossam Ahmed (Memorial University, Canada)
• Performance Study of a MAC Algorithm to Reduce Energy and Delay in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Ioannis Gragopoulos, Ioannis Tsetsinas, Eirini Karapistoli and Fotini-Niovi Paulidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
• A Fast and Efficient Source Authentication Solution for Broadcasting in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Taojun Wu, Yi Cui, Brano Kusy, Akos Ledeczi, Janos Sallai, Nathan Skirvin, Jan Werner, Yuan Xue (Vanderbilt University, USA)

• Virtual Authentication Ring for Securing Network Operations
  Na Li (The Ohio State University, USA); David Lee (The Ohio State University, USA)
• Federated Dynamic Authentication and Authorization in Daidalos
  Zhikui Chen (Stuttgart University, Germany)
• Secure and Fast Roaming in 802.11 WLANs
  Hassnaa Moustafa (France Telecom R&D, France); Gilles Bourdon (France Telecom R&D, France), Invited Paper
• A Mathematical Framework for Risk Assessment
  Marco Benini (Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy); Sabrina Sicari (Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy) Credential

• TMN Management Systems using a Grid based agnostic middleware
  Pasquale Donadio (Alcatel-Lucent Italia, Italy); Antonio Cimmino (Alcatel-Lucent Italia, Italy); Bela Berde (Alcatel Research & Innovation, France); Andrea Paparella (Alcatel-lucent, Italy)
• Direct RF Conversion Transceivers as a Base for Designing Dynamic Spectrum Allocation Systems
  Oleg Panfilov, Antonio Turgeon, Ron Hickling, Igor Alexandrov, Kelly McClellan (TechnoConcepts, Inc., USA)
• Scalable Communication for High Performance and Inexpensive Reliable Strict QoS
  Ing-Wher Chen (University of British Columbia, Canada); M Robert Ito (University of British Columbia, Canada)
• A User Interface for Resource Management in a Mobile Environment
  Badr Benmammar, Zeina Jrad (LIPN Laboratory, France) and Francine Krief (LaBRI Laboratory, Bordeaux 1 University, France)

• Application of Reuse Partitioning Concept to the IEEE 806.16 System: Design and Analysis.
   Soumaya Hamouda (Ecole Supérieure des Communications de Tunis, Tunisia), Philippe Godlewski (ENST-Paris, France), S. Tabbane (Ecole Supérieure des Communications de Tunis, Tunisia)
• Evaluation of the performance of the SLoPS: Available Bandwidth Estimation Technique in IEEE 802.11b Wireless Networks
  Abadelaziz Amamra (LIMOS, France), Kun Mean Hou (LIMOS, France), Jean Pièrre Chanet (LIMOS, France), Invited Paper
• Quality of Service Provisioning Issue of Accessing IP Multimedia Subsystem via Wireless LANs
  Asma Elmangosh (Higher Institute of Industry, Libya, Libya); Majdi Ashibani (Higher Institute of Industry, Libya); Fathi Ben Shatwan (IEEE memeber, Libya)

• Three-color Marking with MLCN for Cross-layer TCP Congestion Control in Multi-hop Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
  Yi-Jen Lu, Chi-Jen Huang, and Tsang-Ling Sheu (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Taiwan)
• Joint cross-layer power control and FEC design for TCP Westwood+ in Hybrid Wireless-Wired Networks
  Gennaro Boggia (Politecnico di Bari, Italy); Pietro Camarda (Politecnico di Bari, Italy); Alessandro D'Alconzo (Politecnico di Bari, Italy); Luigi Grieco (Politecnico di Bari, Italy); Saverio Mascolo (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
• Joint Cross-layer and Dynamic Subcarrier Allocation Design for Multicast OFDM Networks
  Hoda Najafi (Amirkabir university of technology(polytechnic), Iran); Hassan Taheri (Amir Kabir University, Iran); Hamidreza Amindavar (Amirkabir university of technology, Iran); seyed Hossein Hosseini (Iran University of Science & Technology, Iran)

• Handover Optimization for vehicle NEMO Networks
  Lin Hai (Telecom Paris (ENST, France), France); Houda Labiod (ENST, France)
• Introducing L3 Network-based Mobility Management for Mobility-Unaware IP Hosts
  Damjan Damic (Siemens, Croatia)
• WiMax-based Vertical handovers for Next Generation Networks
  Nadine Adra (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France); Samir Tohme (University of Versailles, France); Mahmoud Doughan (universitet libanaise, Lebanon)
• A System-Level Analysis of Power Consumption & Optimizations in 3G Mobile Devices
  Nicolas Sklavos (Technological Educational Institute of Mesolonghi, Greece), K. Touliou (ENST-Telecom,France) Invited Paper

• Runtime software modification method used on COTS system for high-availability network service
  Takashi Ikebe (NTT Corporation, Japan); Yasuro Kawarasaki (NTT Corporation, Japan); Naoki Uchida (NTT, Japan); Shoichi Hirasawa (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Hiroki Honda (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
• MRC Diversity Reception of OFDM with M-ary Modulation over Frequency-Selective Nakagami-m Fading Channels
  Ahmed F. ALNahhal, Mohamed Khedr, Roshdy A. AbdelRassoul (Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt)
• Emerging Wireless Communication Technologies
  Ghais El Zein (IETR-INSA Rennes, France); Ali Khaleghi (IETR, France)
• Performance and flexibility of open source routing software
  Vincenzo Eramo (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy); Antonio Cianfrani (University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
• Upgrade of a Composite-Star Optical Network
  Stefano Secci (ENST Paris & Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Brunilde Sanso (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada)
• An Adaptive Approach to Optimize Software Component Quality Predictive Models: Case of Stability
  Danielle Azar (Lebanese American University, Lebanon); Doina Precup (McGill University, Canada)
• Transport Information Collection Protocol with clustering of information sources
  Mohamed Karim SBAI (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France); Chadi Barakat (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France)

• Wormhole Detection Method based on Location in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks
  Kyu-ho Lee, Hyojin Jeon (University of Ajou, Korea)
• An Effective Defense Against Spoofed IP Traffic
  Hikmat Farhat (Notre Dame University, Lebanon)
• On the security of quantum networks: a proposal framework and its capacity
  Quoc-Cuong Le (Ecole nationale supérieure des télécommunications, France); Patrick Bellot (Ecole nationale supérieure des télécommunications, France), , Akim Demaille (EPITA-LRDE Paris)
• An adaptive security Framework for ad hoc networks
  Vincent Toubiana (Ecole Nationale Sup, France); Houda Labiod (ENST,France),Laurent Raynaud (France Telecom R&D, France), Yvon Gourhant (France Telecom R&D, France)
• Localization with witnesses
  Arun Saha (Cisco Systems, USA); Mart Molle (Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of California, Riverside, USA)
• SAACCESS: Secured Ad hoc ACCess framework
  Hakima Chaouchi (INT, France); Maryline Maknavicius (INT/GET - Institut National des Télécommunications, France), Invited paper

• A Secure Dynamic Remote User Authentication without any Secure Channel
  Ashutosh Saxena (Infosys Technologies Limited, India)
• Cross-Layer Optimization for Dynamic Rate Allocation in a Multi-User Video Streaming System
  Charles Yaacoub (Holy-Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon); Joumana Farah (Holy-Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon); Nancy Rachkidy (Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon); Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France)
• Design and implementation of a Decentralized Access Control System (DACS) and an application
  Tobias Hof, Eric Robert, Isabelle Barthes, Sebastien Bastard (Thales Group, France)
• Monitoring and Security of Container Transports
  Jens Ove Lauf (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany); Dieter Gollmann (TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany)
• A new approach for anomalies resolution within filtering rules
  Anis Yazidi (Higher School of Communications of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia, Tunisia); Adel Bouhoula (Hight School of Communications of Tunisia, Tunisia)
• “SPMCS”: A Scalable Architecture for Peer-to-Peer Multiparty Conferencing
  Amad Mourad (University of Bejaia, Algeria); Ahmed Meddahi (GET/Telecom Lille 1, France)
• An Efficient Authenticated Key Agreement Protocol
  Pierre Abi char (University of Balamand, Lebanon); Abdallah Mhamed (Institut National des Télécommunications, France); Bachar El Hassan (Lebanese University, Lebanon)
• Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map for Alarm Filtering in Netowrk Intrusion Detection Systems
  Ahmad Faour Philippe Leray (INSA of ROUEN, France), Bassam Eter (Lebanese University, Liban)
• AGDH (Asymmetric Group Diffie Hellman) An Efficient and Dynamic Group Key Agreement Protocol for Ad hoc Networks
  Raghav Bhaskar (Microsoft Research), Daniel Augot, Cédric Adjih, Paul Muhlethaler (INRIA), Saadi Boudjit (GET/ENST, France)

• A Model Based on Parallel Intrusion Detection Systems for High Speed Networking Security
  Sourour Meharouech (Higher School of Communication of Tunisia, Tunisia); Adel Bouhoula (Hight School of Communications of Tunisia, Tunisia); Tarek Abbes (LORIA, France)
• A dynamic Policy based Security Architecture for Mobile Agents
  Misbah Mubarak, Zarrar Khan, Hajra Batool Asghar, Fakhra Jabeen, Sara Sultana (National University of Sciences and Technology NUST, Pakistan) H Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri (Communication Technologies, Omachi Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan)
• A Scheme for Intrusion Detection and Response in Ad Hoc Networks
  Marianne Azer (National Telecommunication Institute, Egypt); Sherif El-Kassas (American University in Cairo, Egypt); Magdy El-Soudani (National Telecommunication Institute, Egypt)

• Query Answering in Distributed Description Logics
  Faisal Alkhateeb (INRIA Rhône-Alpes / Joseph Fourier University, France); Antoine Zimmermann (INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France)
• WSRank: A New Algorithm for Ranking Web Services
  Xiaodi Huang (University of New England, Australia)
• Authenticated Web Services: A WS-Security Based Implementation
  Emiliano De Cristofaro (Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy); Vincenzo Auletta (University of Salerno, Italy); Carlo Blundo (University of Salerno, Italy); Stelvio Cimato (University of Milan, Italy); Guerriero Raimato (Università di Salerno, Dip. Informatica ed Applicazioni, Italy)

• An architectural model for a Mobile Agents System Interoperability
  Linda Zeghache (Research Centre in Scientific and Technological Information (CERIST), Algeria); Nadjib Badache (University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediane (USTHB), Algeria); Aouaouche Elmaouhab (Research Centre in Scientific and Technological Information (CERIST), Algeria)
• P2PNet: A Simulation Architecture for P2P Systems
  Lechang Cheng (University of British Columbia, Canada)
• A Middleware for Managing Sensory Information in Pervasive Environments
  Costas Pontikakos (Agricultural University of Athens, Greece); Theodore Tsiligiridis (Agricultural Unilversity of Athens (AUA), Greece)
• An Advanced Metering Infrastructure for Future Energy Networks
  Stamatis Karnouskos, Orestis Terzidis, Panagiotis Karnouskos (SAP Research, Germany)
• Internet Topology Based Identifier Assignment for Tree-based
  DHTs Lechang Cheng, Mabo R. Ito, Norman C. Hutchinson (University of British Columbia, Canada)

• Enhanced Smart-Card-Based Authentication Scheme Providing Forward-Secure Key Agreement
  Mahdi Asadpour (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Behnam Sattarzadeh (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Rasool Jalili (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
• Hiding User Credentials during the TLS authentication phase
  Mohamad Badra (Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Modelisation et d'Optimisation des Systemes, France);Ibrahim Hajjeh (ESRGroups, France), Jacques Demerjian (ALTRAN, France)
• An Efficient Hybrid Chaotic Image Encryption Scheme
  Muhammad Asim, Varun Jeoti (University Technology, Petronas, Malaysia)

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